In 2005, Ciudad Juárez was branded as "the world’s murder capital" with an average of 13 murders a day. This led to many locals fleeing to the US or other neighboring areas. Those who remained were the poor and vulnerable who fell prey to the Cartel, most of them kids who are trained to become sicarios– hitmen.

In the midst of this violence and corruption, Alma opens the doors to a music school for poor children to give them an outlet that might  stop them falling prey to the gangs who are terrorizing this city on the Texas border.

In a city where the culture of death has become a way of life, resilience and hope gives rise to the power of music.